Panel Finds No Evidence Of Fraud On Cold Fusion

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November 20, 1990

HOUSTON — Allegations that Texas A&M researchers spiked water with tritium to fake cold nuclear fusion apparently are unfounded, an internal panel said. The panel, in a report released by the university Sunday, recommended that investigations into the charges be dropped. It said the researchers whose work was questioned may have acted hastily but did not do substandard work. Three A&M professors had been assigned to investigate research at the school that followed the March 1989 claim by scientists in Utah that they had achieved cold fusion in a beaker of water. The journal Science had suggested that some research at A&M was tainted.